Thursday, May 6, 2010

Nova Foams

The relaxed Nova fractal MandelFields have a phenomena where the dusts of closed Julia-like shapes open up into dusts of open lakes.

Normally I avoid these areas as the flat areas are devoid of detail - what a waste of pixels! for example:



But just outside the MandelField are dusts of almost-open Julias, which I think are some of the nicest ones. This behavior will be familiar to anyone who's played with the Julia fractal, and nova illustrates it really beautifully.

I found this Julia-dust in one such area, which has a really nice compounded-complexity to it. It's not as irregular as wider areas of the nova but I like the way it is getting near to the edge of open lake territory.









Here is the path that led me to this area, I noticed a MandelField poking in at the right-hand edge of this:



So I took a portrait/mapping look at it:



Had a closer look at that main sausage,



Closer again:



A shot on one of the deltas leading into the lakes area, the glow comes from a low iteration-limit layer:



And a few more sausage-fields from an earlier experiment:



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